skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you point to alternatives?

I read phys.org since it has a useable mobile interface, which is a lot cleaner than the somewhat cluttered main page. Reading news by categories is also a bonus, I especially like the Other Sciences category.

I know of eurekalert.org, but since they have no mobile site that's a no go.

Also, I think of them less as blogspam than as a news aggregator. I can't read all the direct press releases, so having the info all in one place and categorized is nice.
>This isn't Dropbox and nowhere as reliable as S3 - its literally as if you're renting remote consumer external drives for offsite backup

What are their reliability promises? I think that they're doing some mirroring of the data, but I'm still not sure about the rest of their service details.

I'm considering using them for backups, but have not decided yet.

I came upon this [1] discussion here, from 3 years ago. I'm diving in :)

Yeah, the pods are really sweet and they provide all the design documents [2]!

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=803136

[2]: http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v...

edit: added additional details about the design
i should check before posting...
That's the genius of Apple: They've managed to make it "normal" for people to buy their luxury goods. People who are savvy enough not to spend 3 times as much on a fancy car or shoes are still persuaded to spend 3 times as much on a fancy phone/computer.
The article implies that all internal drives rocketed in price. The drives used in the external drives will most likely be a subset of the internal drives available.
One of these crawled out of our compost bucket through the foam filter and onto the ground. It took about three days and the slime trail would dry over time so it really moved. I was fascinated and a little unnerved by it. It looked intelligent yet able to separate and reform.
well that can't be good! domain not due to expire until 21 March 2013 so looks like their dns records have been hijacked per the original submitter. A records are still going to google for me right now.
I liked the part of your comment where you cropped the rest of his sentence: "— most likely you're either you're missing something you really should know, or you're lucky enough to be working within a narrow area where your deficit doesn't matter."
Kittenger was just pushing the envelop as a test pilot. The fact that he survived shows how uncrazy his approach was. When I was growing up in Orlando, he was best known locally as the skywriter for Rosey O' Grady's - he would go up just about every afternoon during tourist season.
Giveaway: Apple iPhone 5 - 64GB Model | RichVibe
Can someone list non-webapp Golang projects?
By non-webapp I mean, it should not be a web application. For example, golem is a non-webapp project.
NewEgg isn't just retail anymore. They have a 'NewEgg Business' program with pretty solid volume discounts.
Are Z-shaped cranks a good idea?
Inflatable Limb Robot Runs Around on Wiggly Legs
I'm already up to 40-odd days of vacation time in the kitty. I haven't mandated anything but even my boss knows I'm entitled to take them when I want (barring schedule conflicts of course).
Typing animation using CSS
Backends as you know it are gone. Gone forever. Think end-users and elegant laye
> So is this just saying that a particle traveling at .75 c will appear to be moving at 1.5 c to another particle moving towards it at .75 c? If so then duh?

The real DUH is that it doesn't. A particle that is moving at .75c towards an observer going at it at .75c would appear to move at .96c. Velocities cannot be composited like that when you are moving really fast.
There is no licensing information at the bottom of each page within http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/*

Can someone clarify what the licensing situation is?
Possibly this?: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gardaud/6922621705/

(FWIW, I searched [flickr "internet archive" external hard drives] to find this)
Is tech so much more than just Engineering?
I mean, there's the bloggers and the investors too!
How To Deal With Burnout and Get Rich Quick Schemes
Interesting:

$ dig +short @8.8.8.8 google.ie
173.194.39.119
173.194.39.127
173.194.39.120

$ dig +short @ns1.farahatz.net google.ie
119.235.27.219

$ whois 119.235.27.219
(...)
descr: PT. TEKNOLOGI LINTASLINK
(...)
Clean Coders
I am, and of course it is concerning - the engine shut down and debris was strewn about. Do the math on the failure rates. Unless things are dramatically improved (the goal of course), these things are just not safe for people outside of the dare-devil set. That's not a knock against Space X - this is hard stuff. It is a slight knock against Musk's over-the-top marketing that has us on Mars in 15 years, which, in my opinion, is unrealistic.
$6700? You got ripped off.
I bought a 90 lexus ls400 with 160k miles used in 2005 for $2500. I put 100k additional miles on it in 6 yrs. I sold it for $2500. In that time period, I spent around $3000 total in maintenance. Most expensive being timing belt/water pump change at 200k miles at $1200. I changed one of the distributor caps, besides that, other expenses were just brakes, rotors, oil change, tire, light bulbs.
If I understood it, this service could as well be called "onefilebackup", couldn't it?

It is supposed to receive encrypted files anyway, so it does not check its contents.
Rabi, Ramsey and now Wineland. A three generation "academic family" where each has received the Nobel Prize. I'm not sure if that's happened before...

Serge Haroche's advisor was Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, also a Nobel Prize winner.
Marissa Mayer: Girls Can Be Geeks, Too (2010)
Yes, the prelaunch list of 800 signups was the most valuable. Other sources of traffic were my own blog, Twitter, and Reddit.
Monsanto Seed Patent Case Gets U.S. Supreme Court Review
It sounds like they had bulk-buying arrangements, but their primary suppliers were doubling/tripling prices.

We have shortages of drinkable water and food everyday incidentally.
Designing JavaScript APIs For Usability
No but there's one about commenting on the post in a way to make oneself seem clever. I have hereby attained it.
Github commits in the OSX Notificaton Center
Why does the title need to let me know which set of reproductive organs this person has?

[edits below]

Many of the comments seem to indicate a faulty English parser.

The fact that she is 14, and her gender, are presented as identifying information in the title. It's not a reference to what she advocates for, any more than the fact that she is 14 identifies that she advocates for people aged 14. Her sex is presented in the title because a 14 year-old girl being shot tugs at the heart strings more than a 30 year-old man being shot, so you will click the link.
Great post Vero! Really like seeing the winning email and the original one.

Keep up the great work.
[IPv6 Ready]
Whois Search Results	PDF	Print	E-mail

[Querying whois.domainregistry.ie]
[whois.domainregistry.ie]

% You have issued 1000 queries today. You have 0 queries per rolling 1 hours.

% You have reached your 1 hour limit.

Looks like they're blocking lookups for google.ie

Edit - actually looks like they're not doing any lookups. Searching anything gives the same error. I haven't done any lookups today for anything, but it thinks I did 1000.
I noticed this as I was getting an error similar to

SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length

I then did a bit of checking.

I am using OpenDNS, which shows 119.235.27.219 as the IP now

Even when browser tries to redirect to google.com, it is hanging

The IEDR reloads the zonefile next at 5pm, although I suspect they may be a bit quicker about it today...
RoR wont yield any benefit over a good PHP framework, and isn't a very good reason to switch.

Good reasons to switch:

- namespace implementation is bunk

- first class functions are second class

- the stdlib

- the insistence of the PHP devs on doing things in an orthogonal fashion to what the community wants

- only to relent years later with a half-assed implementation of a feature that's standard in modern languages (like finally)

If you do have these problems, and you find a language that suits you, let me know. I've been struggling with the limitations of PHP for years, and I haven't found anything better. PHP's ubiquity means that there's almost certainly a library or extension out there for whatever you need.
How can this even exist without generics, template meta-programming or a turing complete type system? I doubt that they know what they're doing.
$ dig +trace www.google.ie
...
google.ie.	172800	IN	NS	ns1.farahatz.net.

google.ie.	172800	IN	NS	ns2.farahatz.net.

;; Received 79 bytes from 193.1.142.2#53(193.1.142.2) in 4 ms

www.google.ie.	14400	IN	CNAME	google.ie.

google.ie.	14400	IN	A	119.235.27.219

google.ie.	86400	IN	NS	ns2.farahatz.net.

google.ie.	86400	IN	NS	ns1.farahatz.net.

$ whois 119.235.27.219

...

route: 119.235.16.0/20

descr: Route object of PT Inet Global Indo

descr: ISP

descr: Jakarta Barat

country: ID

origin: AS18351

mnt-by: MAINT-ID-INET

changed: hostmaster@idnic.net 20090211

source: APNIC

person: Santoso Halim

address: Pluit Permai 8 No.3A

address: Jakarta-Utara

address: Indonesia

country: ID

phone: +62-21-30047799

fax-no: +62-21-30047798

e-mail: hostmaster@inet.net.id

nic-hdl: SH1061-AP

mnt-by: MAINT-ID-INET

changed: halim@inet.net.id 20061020

source: APNIC
Old School | Bizcovering
Unfortunately last year Google Ireland barely broke even. A tiny €24mil profit on a turnover of €12.5 BILLION [1]

Perhaps some charitable Irish taxpayer could sort their domain name out for them?

1: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/1006/122432...
Take the Interview Shakes up the Hiring Process
Yeah! There were also photos of the truck and of their "who needs enclosures" post later.
The author never judges whether someone is a valid software developer or not. He ASKS why people who work as software developers don't know the answer to (in his opinion) basic questions. Obviously, you would have to read the whole sentence and not just a part of it to understand the question asked here. For your convenience:

"If you can't answer the majority of the questions on these four papers, and you're working or intend to work as a software developer, you should ask yourself why — most likely you're either you're missing something you really should know, or you're lucky enough to be working within a narrow area where your deficit doesn't matter."
I didn't crop that so as to take it out of context, I cropped it to keep the quote short. I don't agree with the bit you added either.
The size can be adjusted to whatever size you need. In principle this can be done automatically by malloc by hot-swapping the typed array with a larger one.
Steven Pinker's book 'The Stuff of Thought' deals with this sort of phrasing. And he explains it quite better than what I can. So here is the relevant excerpt from the book:

Why don't people just say what they mean? The reason is that conversational partners are not modems downloading information into each other's brains. People are very, very touchy about their relationships. Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity--which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.

The clearest example is ordinary politeness. When you are at a dinner party and want the salt, you don't blurt out, "Gimme the salt." Rather, you use what linguists call a whimperative, as in "Do you think you could pass the salt?" or "If you could pass the salt, that would be awesome."

Taken literally, these sentences are inane. The second is an overstatement, and the answer to the first is obvious. Fortunately, the hearer assumes that the speaker is rational and listens between the lines. Yes, your point is to request the salt, but you're doing it in such a way that first takes care to establish what linguists call "felicity conditions," or the prerequisites to making a sensible request. The underlying rationale is that the hearer not be given a command but simply be asked or advised about one of the necessary conditions for passing the salt. Your goal is to have your need satisfied without treating the listener as a flunky who can be bossed around at will.[1]

Analytically minded people would do well to pick up this book and try to understand the science behind our interactions.

[1] http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1659772,00....
If you buy direct from manufacturers you're generally talking about really seriously large sales contracts, which is outside the scope of a small-medium business.
just refresh, it said "10001 queries and -1 queries per rolling -1 hours" a minute ago

it seems like it's getting hammered now (the actual site iedr.ie)
Auto Dealers Whine That Tesla Stores Are Illegal
Does this mean that the SpaceX statement yesterday along the lines of "it worked as designed" was false, or did they just lie by omission of the fact that they didn't launch it high enough?
Phishing attacks aren't targeting the HN crowd / web programmers.
It's "one file" in the sense that you're backing up all your important stuff with one file upload.

You can backup as many files as you'd like, but if you name them the same thing on upload, they will rewrite each other. I like to name my backups by date, so I end up with files named 20121009.backup.tar.gz.enc. Tomorrow it will be 20121010.backup.tar.gz.enc.

It is preferred that people encrypt their backups before upload, but it's not enforced. There is no checking of file contents.

Let me know if you have any more questions! :)
The post struck me as slightly unprofessional, but from a technical standpoint I don't see anything that would change my opinion of the service they provide.

They achieve the best bang for buck by using ordinary consumer hard drives in RAID arrays. During the hard drive crisis, the cheapest way of procuring these was by purchasing external drives from ordinary stores.

There's nothing wrong with that. If anything, it shows agility and ingenuity.
Hmm.. OK.. And how many free [insert kick back item here] will this marketing fellow get for this little effort :-?

Nevertheless, what a marketing effort! They really nailed this one.
Visibility Alone Is Not Security
No. Rockets are descending from orbital velocity (30,000mph) to terminal velocity (700mph). They have a tremendous amount of energy they have to get rid of as they come down which they do as heat. Baumgartner is taking a balloon up and then freefalling down. He's no where near orbital velocity so his energy expenditure will just be some air friction.

He might get a teensy bit warm on the way down.
http://www.whois.com/whois/google.ie

shows

status: Active
nserver: ns1.google.com
nserver: ns2.google.com
nserver: ns3.google.com
source: IEDR

Domaintools.com shows something else

http://whois.domaintools.com/google.ie

Something else that's worth a look at: http://host.robtex.com/ns1.farahatz.net.html#graph
A few months ago I wanted to buy 1000 Microsoft Lifecam Cinema HD webcams. I could order them individually from Amazon for £27 each with free delivery.

I phoned up all the official Microsoft distributors in my country, who phoned up Microsoft and whatnot. Not one of them could offer me a price below about £35. And getting in contact with Microsoft hardware directly? Ha, I should be so lucky.
From the opening paragraph of the article that you didn't read:
"activist who has campaigned for girls' education"
Because she is a campaigner for girls education in Pakistan, a country where women and men do not have equal rights and was shot because of it?

Maybe you should read the article before posting?
Low-level tools that just spam requests at your webserver will give you a pleasingly high number (hopefully), but are unlikely to be an accurate picture of how many 'users' you can concurrently sustain.

Try to come up with some automated test or script that exercises the full set of features you'd expect an actual user to be interacting with over the course of a session.

Then, build a harness that slightly randomises those activities, and fires off a large number of 'virtual users' against your service. Running from geographically diverse hosts will ensure you're closest to what an actual user would experience.

Actually determining what mix of operations constitutes an 'average session' is relatively difficult, but there are tools that can record sessions from actual users (look at the HAR dump in chrome, or Selenium[1] testing framework)

All of your test clients should be recording response latencies + errors, which you can later analyse to see what slows down at scale, or which critical features with unacceptable performance you need to target first.

Another thing to consider, especially during release, is that lots of users signing up and playing around is likely to be a completely different workload to regular users using it for day-to-day activities.

You need to make sure things like your transactional email notifications ('your account has been created, verify your email address, ...') can handle peak demand as well.

[1] http://seleniumhq.org/
Regular consistent amounts at set intervals is a bit of a giveaway.
It's activist for females, not activist who was female.
It doubled, or in this case, increased by 1.6%. That's nice, but how can you know that a 1.6% increase is a direct result of these tweaks, instead of just natural ups and downs in email response? Maybe 1.6% of recipients were having an unnaturally good day and decided to click that month? That's only 1 in 98 people after all. If it had been 10% or something like that then that's an obvious difference, but 1.6%?
`whois google.ie` returns

% Rights restricted by copyright; http://iedr.ie/index.php/mnudomregs/mnudnssearch/96
% Do not remove this notice

domain: google.ie
descr: Google, Inc
descr: Body Corporate (Ltd,PLC,Company)
descr: Registered Trade Mark Name
admin-c: KR59-IEDR
tech-c: CCA7-IEDR
registration: 21-March-2002
renewal: 21-March-2013
status: Active
nserver: ns1.google.com
nserver: ns2.google.com
nserver: ns3.google.com
source: IEDR

person: Kulpreet Rana
nic-hdl: KR59-IEDR
source: IEDR

person: eMarkmonitor Inc
nic-hdl: CCA7-IEDR
source: IEDR

Which looks like it could be cached information. Kulpreet Rana's LinkedIn "also viewed" section seems to identify her as a Google lawyer. The new nameservers are ns1.farahatz.net and ns2.farahatz.net.
A Statistical Justification For IE Ads
http://youtube.com/embed/vkJ5ItzE
There is a huge difference between not knowing the answers off the top of your head and not being able to learn and understand the answers given 30 minutes and access to Google. If you fail the former that's fine in my book, if on the other hand you fail the latter then that might be reason for concern.
They may have different branding or model numbers, but in terms of technical specifications they are no different to internal drives.
> learn to see it naturally and intuitively

What exactly does it mean for something to become natural and intuitive? It's not unimaginable for an Aspie to learn to observe all sorts of behavioral hints -- BBC's recent incarnation of Sherlock Holmes does this exceptionally well -- but does he actually reach the decision that "This person is telling the truth" by the same process that a "normal" person does?

In my experience as an Aspie, it never happens automatically, and it never feels natural. I can hear every line of the code that's being interpreted and executed in my mind. I have a fast CPU, so it doesn't take long, but it definitely happens.

if (smile) {
try {
check_wrinkles(under_eyes);
}
catch (CantTellException) {
make_do_with_rough_assumption();
}
}

Even worse, Aspies tend to focus intensely on one thing at a time, so multi-tasking is risky business. An Aspie who learned to watch for wrinkles under eyes in real-time might focus so much on nothing but wrinkles under eyes, so that much more obvious signs of lying go completely unnoticed. In other words, check_wrinkles() blocks everything else. Similarly, even though I have extensive experience both in walking around and in hearing my own name, if somebody calls my name from behind while I'm walking, there's over 50% chance that the call won't even register, because every event handler must wait while walk() blocks. Also, the whole program crashes when an unanticipated exception occurs, resulting in extreme frustration.

As a consequence, when an Aspie finally gets enough practice to pass as normal, he might look like a normal person to casual observers, but the Aspie himself is always painfully aware that what he's doing is neither natural nor intuitive. At best, he's got the script cached in RAM for quick access.
Man Says he has next Facebook (Plenty of Laughs)
The Pirate Bay celebrates its 10th anniversary
22-Mile Supersonic World Record Stratos Skydive
those results are likely cached

http://www.opendns.com/support/cache/

This would be loading the correct "hacked" entries now

google.ie
119.235.27.219
The fact is that adding classes to JavaScript fundamentally alters the lispyness of the language in a detrimental fashion.

I don't want to see JavaScript turned into Java script.
I don't think they have addressed this issue yet. When they said things like "Falcon 9 did exactly what it was designed to do", all of that is 100% true. Additionally, all comments SpaceX have made so far, I think, are written about the ISS mission. They have not said anything about success or failure of other aspects of the launch, like this satellite. I assume we'll hear something eventually, but given that everything might be fine (the Orbcomm people are working to get it in the right orbit, it sounds like) they're probably just sitting tight for now.
And, I would add, intense vulnerability to future market fluctuations. If this was their contingency plan, they've exhausted it. What happens next time?
As if winning a Formula 1 race isn't enough of a rush, you need some caffeine afterwards too!
You did a much better job of articulating a point I've ranted on many times to my colleagues. I love the analogy of the factory worker.

The interesting thing is no point in human history has the walls of aristocracy and institutional money been torn down so quickly in a single industry.

To do what many of us can do in our basement for the same 'work yield', people would borrow millions in the past. In the industrial era of our country, who would of been able to start a factory in their basement with $200 worth of equipment.

That's what drives me nuts when friends and people I respect want to spend their time building gimmicky products and hope they get picked up by someone. If people spent 1/2 the amount of energy looking around them and just finding one business problem to solve that makes someone else money (not just yourself) in either efficiency or growth, you'll be a very successful software engineer.

Thanks for sharing :D
The benefit over Emscripten is that LLJS makes it easier to mix JS and C-like code and skip the C/C++ tool chain. Of course, the drawback is that you miss out on all the LLVM optimizations.
Basically the data is moving from Oracle to OrientDB then the edges cache the thrift data on the filesystem and in-memory.
Because her gender is part of the reason for her attack.

One of the Taliban's aim is to oppress women. In addition, many stories come from Pakistan about attacks on women by the general population.

So yes, the reproductive organs of the victim are a key part of the story and should be reflected in the headline.
Google.ie Hijacked?
Don't wait. First, no guarantee that stuff will actually get adopted, it's still quite abstract. Second, even if so, it will take a while for browsers to catch up, so people will be coding in current JS for a while. Third, much of the current conceptual hurdles will still be relevant, particularly functional style and async design patterns.

Would highly recommend Javascript: The Good Parts, don't know where I would be without it.
It's got to suck working on making a satellite, with precision engineering and the highest quality materials, to just have it go nowhere.